Netflix's The Perfect Neighbor Wins Top International Documentary Prize at the Grierson Awards
Netflix's documentary The Perfect Neighbor has won Best Single Documentary – International at the Grierson Awards in London. It beat Mr Nobody Against Putin in that category, according to Deadline. The Grierson Trust announced the winners on 10 November 2026.
The Grierson British Documentary Awards are the UK's main documentary prizes, and they cover films, series and current affairs. Netflix also won Best Single Documentary for Grenfell Uncovered, and Best Arts and Music for Songs from the Hole. That makes three Netflix wins among the categories reported.
Other winners came from UK broadcasters. ITV's Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War took Best Current Affairs Documentary. Channel 4's See No Evil won Best Documentary Series, meaning a show made up of several episodes rather than a single film.
Anna Godas received the Grierson Trustees' Award, which the trust gives to recognise an individual's wider contribution to documentary. The awards are presented in association with Banijay UK, a production company.
Behind the ceremony sits the trust's wider work. Grierson DocLab is its training branch, and it runs programmes for people starting out in documentary. The Grierson-Percy Documentary Grant is a finishing fund for UK-based independent filmmakers and production companies. It is made possible by a donation from the documentary maker Norma Percy, and it helps projects reach completion when the money to finish them runs short.
For the people on these films, the win is a line on a CV and a louder name for the next commission. For viewers, it is a reminder that a documentary can be a single film or a long run of episodes, and both can sit on the same night of awards.
